Start-Ups

Coinvest, a blockchain start-up comprised of Microsoft alumni, has announced an expanded portfolio of revenue-generating products. The company's 2018-2019 roadmap is supportive of its mission to democratize and lower the barriers to investing in cryptocurrencies by providing simpler, accessible solutions to all audiences. The company has launched CoinDNA (Data, News,...

Rivetz Corp. has announced it has joined the Trusted IoT Alliance, an open-source software foundation supporting a secure, scalable, interoperable and trusted IoT ecosystem. As a member of the Trusted IoT Alliance, Rivetz will collaborate with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to develop and support the intersection of blockchain and...

Cofound.it, a platform which facilitates the training of promising blockchain start-ups from around the world, has announced six start-ups which have been chosen by its community to participate in the ‘Cofound.it Playoffs’. The start-ups will participate in the ‘live’ crowdsale event in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 30th of November from...

Not-for-profit association Crypto Valley Association - CVA, established to support the development and dissemination of cryptographic technologies, blockchain, and other distributed ledger technologies, has announce that KPMG Switzerland is joining as its first Strategic Partner. CVA supports start-ups and other companies, both in Zug, Switzerland and internationally. Crypto Valley’s mission...

On the 20th of September, 2017, the Blokchain Live event was held at The Brewery in London. Over the course of one day, hundreds of attendees had the opportunity to listen to talks given by a wide variety of speakers on the subject of blockchain technology, with topics ranging from...

Cryptocurrency payments platform start-up UTRUST has stated that it believes that in the future, with an estimated current 2.5 billion unbanked people in emerging markets, blockchain technology has the potential to create nearly 95 million new jobs across sectors in unbanked nations. The company aims to develop a ready-to-use cryptocurrency...

An event dubbed the first ever ‘ICO-Hypethon’ has been announced for August the 16th at St. Petersburg’s Street Art Museum. The two-day event is hosted by Crypto Friends meetup and supported by blockchain solutions developers Waves Platform and the consultancy company Eberhard Lindfordt. ICO-Hypethon is open to crypto-enthusiasts and will...

Santiment, a datafeeds platform displaying an accurate representation of the state of crypto-markets, has announced that its Santiment token – SAN - is now trading on Bitfinex. The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange added the token and allows SAN token holders to trade against BTC, ETH, and USD. The announcement follows Santiment’s...

Mothership, a new token market, exchange, cloud hosting platform and wallet providing blockchain financial services, has been introduced to the Estonian eResidency program. The e-Residency offered by Estonia is a government-issued digital ID available to anyone in the world. A legally binding signature (a pair of identity-linked RSA keys), e-Residency...

Cross Coin, a Singapore-based company, has announced that during its ICO, $5 million in cryptocurrency was raised for investment in the tech start-ups within Starta Accelerator, a Russian and American initiative. $1.5 million was raised during the first 15 minutes of the crowdfunding campaign, and the full amount was raised...

Singapore-based Cross Coin has stated its intent to release up to 5 million tokens during its Initial Coin Offering, intended to raise between $1.5 million and $5 million investment in a pool of technology startups in the Russian and American project Starta Accelerator. Token costs will be $1, in order...

Cofound.it, a platform for nurturing and incubating innovative start-ups planning crowdsales, has announced that its token pre-sale has reached its capacity of $5 million USD in 3 hours, with more than 1,200 investors. The pre-sale, which started on June 4th, 2017 at 5pm CET, was available to Cofound.it’s most engaged...

Most of the Chain of Things' (CoT) team turned out for our debut at the Smart IoT London 2017 event on March 15th and 16th at ExCel London event. CoTers there included four co-founders - Adam Vaziri, Conor Colwell, Doug Irwin, and Hans Lombardo. The Hong Kong-based startup's decision to partner...

Global innovation platform Plug and Play has announced it is launching their newest program, Plug and Play Supply Chain & Logistics. In partnership with founding partners Maersk and Ericsson, the model brings together a roundtable of complementary industry leaders to guide the direction of the program. The Supply Chain &...

KPMG International and Microsoft Corp. have announced the launch of joint Blockchain Nodes, which are designed to create and demonstrate use cases that apply blockchain technology to business propositions and processes. The first joint Blockchain Nodes are in Frankfurt and Singapore, with future plans for a location in New York....

The Business Incubator of Higher School of Economics in Moscow has announced a second year of FinTech start-up program HSE Pro Fintech, with official partner Waves, the decentralized platform for crowdfunding and community management and National Settlement Depository. The Incubator recently launched the second round of its pro fintech programme....

BlockchainHub has announced that Status — an Ethereum mobile client, and Etherisc — a decentralized insurance application as the two main winners of its Blockchain Start-up Contest. Organized by the BlockchainHub Graz, a collaboration between Lab10, Coinfinity, and MakerSpace, and was sponsored and supported by Energie Steiermark, Steiermärkische Sparkasse +...

Last week in Wanchai, Hong Kong, blockchain advisory firm Chain of Things held its first Chain of Shipping conference. Designed to give professionals from the shipping industry and blockchain developers a view into the needs and possibilities that they respectively held, the day was a busy event with plethora of...

Casey Kuhlman, Monax Industries' CEO detailed recently the rebranding of Eris Industries its former title to Monax Industries. The company, which provides process automation for enterprise ecosystems, has decided on the change in name as it moves in focus towards building a long-lasting framework. Previously Eris, named after the ancient...